N.B This testimony is an excerpt from the book; Another Warning by Brother Ubani Kingsley, on whose permission we are reproducing...

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Friday, August 15, 2014

HOWARD STORM, THE ATHEIST THAT MET THE LORD

Howard
Storm was an atheist1 art professor who would not tolerate
anyone speaking about religion or God in his presence, and especially in his
classroom. An experience in Paris changed all that and completely altered
Howard's life. After he "died" in a Paris hospital, in 1985, he met Jesus, who answered all of his questions.
HE SHARES HIS EXPERIENCE BELOW.

I was a 38 years old college
professor taking some students on a tour of Europe with my wife on a 3 week tour.
We were in Paris, precisely 11 am when, I had an acute pain in my stomach. The pain
was so excruciating that I was screaming and twisting all over.

My wife called an emergency
and I was taken in an ambulance 8 and half miles away to a public hospital,
where I was examined by two more doctors and rolled to Surgery. Because there
was no surgeon to perform the operation, I was there waiting for close to 8-10
hours, lying there on the operating table helpless. Strangely, till the
following day, there was no surgeon to attend to me and this really got me
hopeless.

One thing that was keeping me alive was my
determination to live. I also realised my life as somebody that lived for the
flesh and an atheist. At this point, with no sight of any doctor, the thought
of living for another hour in this agonizing pain was unthinkable, so I knew
death was fast knocking at the door. I called my wife and bid her the last bye
because death was at the door. She started crying. Having been married for 20
years, the agony of this separation could not be imagined with her crying.

Shortly after this, I went
into unconsciousness and almost simultaneously became conscious and I realised
I was now standing. I had become well and more alive than ever, with all my
senses working super sensitively. I looked round the room and I saw a man on
the bed who turned his head to the other side and when I looked closely, it turned
out to be me! That was impossible ! How could I be standing and still be lying
on the bed!

I tried to talk to my wife,
but could not hear me.I started screaming and got angry thinking my wife was
ignoring me. I got more agitated and angry because everything looked weird to
me. Later, I heard people calling me outside the hospital, ‘Howard come outside now’.

In the hallway, that looked
hazy and cloudy, I saw men and women that looked as if they were wearing some hospital
uniforms. I asked them if they were from the doctor to take me for my
operation. They continued telling me to come quickly as if calling me to follow
them, which I did. I observed that time seemed to be of no essence here.As I
was following these people, it got darker and they got really hostile to me. We
now got into a place of complete darkness. That was when I told these people, ‘I am not going with you any further’ and
it became a struggle with tugging, pushing, pulling me. I saw a lot of them; they
were taunting me, mocking me. They could destroy me, but were only scratching, biting
and hurting me. I tried to defend myself, but they were a lot.

I was now lying on the floor,
all ripped up, all pain both inside and outside. I was down humiliated and
brought to the lowest point of shame. Suddenly, I heard my exact voice calling
me.Many thoughts now began to race through my mind. I thought to myself that, I
don’t believe in God in the first place. I remembered that I had not prayed for
over 22 years since I was in Sunday School as a young boy. I tried to string
together a prayer, but could not pray and I observed something interesting,
that any time I mentioned the name of Jesus, my tormentors would shrink back
and scream. It was as if they could not bear hearing the name Jesus.

The thought of lying there
on the floor for eternity was just unimaginable. I thought about my life, what
I had done and what I had not done. I concluded that I had lived a selfish life.
I realised that those that attacked me were people like me. They had equally
lived a life of selfishness and cruelty, so they are now in a world where they
are doomed to inflict such pain on themselves and others for ever and ever. Now,
I am part of them, though I didn’t want to be there, but this is where I truly
belong.

I was lying there and
suddenly, an image of myself came up and I saw myself in the Sunday School singing-‘Jesus loves me, la la’. I realised that
there was a time in my life when I believed in a person called Jesus, who cared
for me and I knew I want that back now. I want to know Jesus that I knew then, so
I called out, ‘JESUS, SAVE ME’.AND
HE CAME!

At first, it was a tiny
little light and became lighter and the light came upon me and He reached down
to pick me up. I was battered and He was literally picking me up from my broken
pieces and as He did, all the pains and wounds just began to ease away. I am
like whole and complete and I was filled with His love. It was the best thing
that could happen to me in life. He was holding me, embracing and rubbing my back.
It was like the perfect image of the prodigal son that was lost, but has now
been found.

After, Jesus carried me to a
world of light(it was as if we were
ascending a staircase) .In this beautiful and heavenly environment, I felt
like a garbage and was full of shame.I
don’t belong here and when I found myself in this world of light, I began to ask
why and how He could care about me.Later,we went to heaven and hell and when we
were at the crossroad of the two, Jesus told me: ‘We don’t make mistake, you rightly belong to hell’. Now some
angels had joined us.

We began to converse .The
angels had brought a record of my past life; things I have done right and the
things I have done wrongly. What they wanted to achieve was to show me things
that I have done right and wrong. When they were showing me things that I have
done right, for example being a good father, they all rejoiced and when I had
been selfish and manipulative, they were unhappy. The lesson they were
instilling in me is that the
purpose of my creation is to love God, my neigbours and then myself. And I had
failed in all these areas.

They later told me I would
go back to earth, but for me, I wanted to stay and go to
heaven because of a lot of things they told me about the place. It is truly a
place of pleasure, but they told me, I was not ready and fit and that I should
go back and fulfil my purpose. I told them I can’t do it, going back to live on
earth and they assured me that they have always been with me and that whenever
I pray and give up all my worries, aspiration, anxieties that I would feel
their presence, though not physically, that I would also feel their love.

So I returned to earth and the
first thing that happened was that, the nursed that had earlier announced that
there was no doctor was the same person that came running that the doctor is
now around. The doctor came and I was rolled into surgery. I was trying to call
my wife to tell her about my experience, but I was rushed in. To the glory of
God I recovered quickly and became physically whole.

After many years, the memory
of my life-changing experience has not dulled and the reason why I was given
the revelation is so that I would share it with somebody,
especially the assurance of Jesus’ everlasting love for human soul.

Are you ready to stand
before the Lord, Jesus sincere and blameless? The Lord’s ultimate wish is that
we all prepare ourselves for His coming, which will come like a thief in the
night. He has prepared a place for us, to reign with Him forever. Are you ready
to give your life or rededicate your life to the Lord? Then say this short
prayer…Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner and that you shed your precious blood
to redeem me. Come into my life and be my Lord and saviour. I forsake my sins
and yield myself to your saving grace. Thank you Lord for saving me.

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